HI, I would upgrade that "a good read" to a critical read if you do anything with floating point. Floating point numbers are not real numbers but rather a small subset, and, have all kinds of funny properties. But we use them just like real numbers and that's what catches us out. cheers bruce
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Donald Howard wrote: > > "What are other suggestions, workarounds or approaches community has?" > > This is a good read on the subject: > > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html > > Title is "What every computer scientist should know about floating point > arithmetic". > > Pierce
